Ten engineering students from Iwate prefecture in northern Japan arrive at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Wagga Wagga today for a week of cultural exchange and English language enrichment. Mr David Gilbey, adjunct senior lecturer in English in the CSU School of Humanities and Social Sciences, has organised the visit from Monday 31 August to Friday 4 September with Professor Yoshihiko Hatakeyama of the National Institute of Technology Ichinoseki (NITI). "The aim of the program is to give Japanese students an experience of Australian university life by staying on campus, and provide them with a range of experiences of life and culture in and around Wagga Wagga," Mr Gilbey said. "Highlights will include some of the specific facilities at Charles Sturt University as well as visits to museums, art galleries, the botanic gardens, saleyards, shopping, farm and factory visits at Junee and Wantabadgery. Lecturer in photography Mr Jamie Holcombe will be at the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery to talk to the students about his current exhibition 'Civic Malaise', an apt and acerbic interrogation of Australian culture. It is intended that this exchange program will motivate and focus the students' study of and skills in English by designing short language tasks that arise out of their experiences here."